Curriculum Vitæ

	POWERS, David Martin Ward		Born: 5th December, 1957 at CAMDEN, NSW
	Status/Sex: married male with 1 child		Nationality and Citizenship: AUSTRALIAN

Education, Awards, Academic, Corporate, Societies, Professional, Languages, Funding, Fellowships, Talks, Projects,
Publications: Books, Edited, Chapters, Refereed Journals, Editorials, Reviews and Articles, Conference Papers, Commissioned, IP, Supervised

WWW: AILT, Informatics & Engineering, Flinders University, HomePage

Education

2003	Completed Chinese 1A and 1B, Flinders/Adelaide Universities
2001	Awarded Diploma in Technical Analysis, Dip.TA (ATAA), Securities Institute Australia
1989	Awarded Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of NSW).
1984	Awarded Certificate in Theology (Hons; Moore Theological College).
1982	Awarded Sydney Preliminary Certificate in Theology (Hons; Moore Theological College).
1980	Awarded Certificate in Linguistics (Introductory; Summer Institute of Linguistics).
1979	Awarded B.Sc. (Hons in Computer Science and major in Pure Mathematics; U. Sydney).
1974	Awarded Higher School Certificate (Level 1 French, Maths, Science; Fort St High School, SYDNEY).

Prizes/Scholarships/Awards

2008	Best Student Paper Award (Australian Computer Science Conference) for paper co-authored with Ph.D. student Donqiang Yang
2007	Best Paper Nomination (GECCO) with Postdoc Dr Martin Luerssen – although this is the premier conference in Genetic/Evolutionary Computation attendance was not funded and the paper was withdrawn.
2002	Best Paper Nomination and Best Student Paper Award (Australian Computer Science Conference) for paper co-authored with Ph.D. student Trent Lewis
1999	Special Award for the Advancement of the Turing Test/Artificial Intelligence - Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence (Bronze Medal)
1995	Flinders University Equal Opportunity Commendation - Citation reads:
1988	Best Paper in AI Conference (Systems and Cybernetics Meeting, Vienna).
1979-83	Australian Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Scholarship (U. NSW).
1973-74	Commonwealth Senior Secondary Scholarship (Fort St, SYDNEY, NSW).
1972/74	Prizes in the IBM-UNSW School Mathematics Competition (Junior/Senior Divisions resp.)
1969-71	Inner London Education Authority Music Scholarship (Archbishop Tennison's Grammar School, London, UK).

Academic Positions

1994-	Associate Professor, Flinders University of South Australia, AU
1993	Visiting Professor, ENST - Telecom Paris, FR
1992	Research Fellow, ITK - Institute of Language and Knowledge Technology, University of Tilburg, NL
1989-91	Senior Research Fellow in ESPRIT GRANT "COMPULOG" - Computational Logic - at the University of Kaiserslautern, FRG (in association with the DFKI - German AI Institute).
1989	Part-time lecturer in PROLOG, Business Computing, City International, Sydney, AU.
1984-89	Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics, Macquarie Unviersity, Sydney, AU
1983-84	Half-time tutor in the Dept of Computer Science, University of NSW, Sydney, AU

Administrative Roles in Current Position

1995-1996 2007-	Representative, Faculty of Science and Engineering Research Committee
2006-	Member, University Consultative Council
2005-2006	Human Factors Program Leader/SA bid leader, CRC-Safe bid
2004-	Senior First Aid Officer
2001-2003	Computing representative on School of Informatics and Engineering Higher Degrees Committee
1999-2001	Representative, South Australian Consortium for Information Technology and Telecommunications
1999-	Computer Science cognate representative, Bachelor of Behavioural Sciences and Bachelor of Psychology
1998-2000	Representative, Flinders/Small ARC Grants Committee
1997-	Computer Science representative, Bachelor of Arts Exam Board
1996-2000	Representative, Faculty of Science and Engineering Higher Degrees Committee
1996-1999	Chair, Dept of Computer Science Higher Degrees Committee
1996-	Observer or Member of various promotion and tenure (sub)committees as NTEU representative
1995-1996	Dept of Computer Science Research Coordinator
1994-2006	Deputy Chairman, Cognitive Science Committee
1994-1997	Member, Apple University Consortium Committee
1994-1997	Member, Information Technology Advisory Committee
1994-1996	Member, Faculty of Science and Engineering Courses and Curriculum committee

Subjects Taught

Taught/Current/Coordinated (Level – Area/code)	Dates (typical enrolment)
Masters by coursework projects (Masters – IT/CS)	2002- (1 or 2 most years)
Information Retrieval and Visualization (Hons - CS)	*2001-* (~5)
Computer Organization (2 – COMP2004)	2000-2001 (80-100)
Operating Systems (3 – COMP3011)	1997/9,2000/7- (60-80)
Engineering Honours Project (Hons – Eng)	1999- (typically 1-2 a year)
Unsupervised Machine Learning (Hons)	1998-2000 (3-10)
Programming Paradigms (2 – COMP2003)	1996-9 (60-80)
Cognitive Science 2 (2+3+Hons – PSYC3006)	1996-2001,03,05 (8-20)
Computer Science 3^rd Year Project (3 – COMP3013)	*1996-2001,3,5*- (3-13)
Software Development Environments (4 - ENGR)	1995-6 (20)
Cognitive Science 1 (2+3 – PSYC2006)	1995,1996-2002,4,6 (15)
Computer Science Honours Project (Hons - CS)	1995- (1-2 most years)
Artificial Intelligence (3+Hons/Mast – COMP3007)	1994-96,1998-2000, 2002,4,6 (30-50)
Natural Language Learning (Hons)	1994-7 (3-5)
Programming Languages (Mast – COMP9031) Prog. Language Concepts (3+Hons – COMP3001)	*1994-6,1998-* (20-50)
Computational Logic (3 – COMP3009)	1994-6 (10-20)
Computer Science 1 (1 – COMP1000)	1994-5 (200+)
Neural Networks (3+Hons – Math+CS:ISTC3001)	1994 (20-24)

PhD students (see also supervised work below): I am currently supervising as a principal supervisor five PhD students, one with a co-principal supervisor from another discipline (Engineering). While at Flinders seven PhD students have completed under my supervision (Entwisle, Steele, Li, Lewis, Luerssen, Yang, Fitzgibbon) and I was also brought in to supervise the successful resubmission of another PhD student. I am also cosupervising other PhD students in the area of Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining and Data Visualization. I periodically examine higher degree/research theses at other universities both nationally and internationally (around 1 a year: 1 in 2006, 2 in 2007).

Corporate/Advisory Board/Executive (Selected)

2006-	BioX Pty Ltd, Advisory Board
2006-	Flinders University Consultative Committee
2005-	Flinders Medical Devices Advisory Board
2000-05	DSTO-YourAmigo Industry Alliance
2000-	Director, SupRes Inc.
1998-	YourAmigo Pty Ltd, Advisory Board
1996-	Flinders Branch Executive (Academic Representative), National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU)
1981-88	Director, Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students Inc. (AFES).
1981-83	Standing Committee, University of NSW Students' Union Clubs And Societies on Campus.
1981-82	Staff-Postgraduate Liaison Officer, University of NSW Christian Union.
1981-82	Vice-President, University of NSW Postgraduate Representative Association.
1980-81	President, University of NSW Christian Union.
1979-80	Vice-President, University of NSW Christian Union
1978-88	Manager, Innovative Microprocessor And Computer Technology (IMPACT)
1975-91	Director, Jordan Books Ltd (now a division of IMPACT Inc.)
1973-	Director, IMPACT Ltd, now IMPACT Inc.

Society Memberships (Selected)

2002-	ALTA: Australian Language Technology Association (Founding Member)
1997-99	AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science
1996-	ASSTA: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association
1995-96	NYAS: New York Academy of Sciences
1993-	ACL SIGNLL: Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning (Founding President, Member Steering Committee, Member International Advisory Board)
1991-	International Association for Cognitive Linguistics
1990-92	SPP: Society for Philosophy and Psychology
1989-	AAAI: American Association for Artificial Intelligence (Life Member)
1987-98	ALP: Association for Logic Programming
1986-90	AAR: Association for Automated Reasoning
1984-89	Macquarie University Staff Association
1983-84	University of New South Wales Staff Association
1981-92	ALLC: Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
1981-92	ARA: Australian Robot Association (Foundation Member)
1980-	ACL: Association for Computational Linguistics
1979-	ACM: Association for Computing Machinery (Student 1979-84)
1978-98	ACS: Australian Computer Society (Associate 1978-80)
1977-	IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (Student 1977-1984, Member 1984-2005, Senior Member 2005-)
1975-92	Australian Mensa

Professional (Selected)

2006-	Program Committee, Workshop on Visual Evidence in Human-Computer Interaction, Keynote Speaker in 2006
2005-	Program Committee for the International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL)
2005-	Program Committee for the Australian User Interface Conference (AUIC)
2005-	International Association for the Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Conference WWW/Internet
2005	Invited talk, Workshop on higher brain function and cognitive science, International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering (CME2005)
2001-	Program Committee for the International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
2001	Program Committee for the International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
1999-2001	Program Committee, Joint Australian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI'2001
1999-	External Collaborator, Working Group for Data Mining of Natural Language, University of Sydney & Sydney Language Technology Research Group
1999-	Program Committee, International Symposium on Biologically Inspired Systems
1999	Invited talk on Unsupervised Learning, IEAust
1999	Invited position paper and co-chair of Ecolang Round Table 3 and Cybersession 2 (including presenting a position paper) on `Basic assumptions in acquisition research' at the International Workshop on the Ecology of Language in Amsterdam (participating via a teleconference hookup). Invited chapters in two books arising from this.
1999	Program Committee, ACL Workshop on Unsupervised Learning in Natural Language Processing
1999	External Reviewer, Review of the Queensland University of Technology Machine Learning Centre
1998-	Program Committee, International Workshop on Natural Language and Information Systems
1998	Program Committee, AAAI Symposium on Machine Learning and Discourse
1997-99	Organizer, the Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence (Flinders declined to take it on on a permanent basis)
1997-98	Organizer, Australian Natural Language Processing Fortnight incorporating CoNLL and NeMLaP and Loebner Prize.
1997-	Editorial Board, The Web Journal of Formal, Computational and Cognitive Linguistics (sponsored by the Russian Association for Artificial Intelligence)
1997	Organizer, Theme Session on Computer Models in Cognitive Linguistics, International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
1997	Tutorial on Natural Language Learning at the joint ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) and EACL (European branch of ACL) conference in Madrid
1997	Program Committee and Organizing Committee, Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)
1996-97	Program Committee, International Conference on Grammar Induction (ICGI'96)
1996-2000	Program Committee, Australasian Computer Science Conference
1996-	Program Committee, Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning. Initiated the CoNLL annual conference on Computational Natural Language Learning in 1996 in my capacity as President of SIGNLL.
1996-	Program Committee, Australasian Computer Architecture Conference
1996	South Australian Branch Executive, Australian Computer Society
1996	National Technical Board, Australian Computer Society
1996	Invited lecture, European Summer School on Language Logic and Information (ESSLLI) workshop on Machine Learning of Natural Language (Prague)
1996	Invited tutorial on Machine Learning of Natural Language at the Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST-96)
1995-96	Program and Local Committee, Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST-96)
1995	Invited presentation/panelist at a joint staff development seminar of the three South Australian Universities on supporting students with disabilities
1995	Program Committee, Workshop on Very Large Corpora (WVLC), ACL
1994	Invited talk, ELSnet/MLnet workshop on Machine Learning of Natural Language and Speech
1994-	Member, ACL SIGNLL Board; Founding President (1994-1997), SIG on Natural Language Learning (SIGNLL), Association for Computational Lingusitics (ACL)
1993-97	Program Committee, Intern'l Conference on New Methods in Natural Language Processing (NeMLaP)
1993-94	Programme Committee, Workshop on Similarity-based Learning of Natural Language
1993	Organizing committee and invited talk, European Conference on Machine Learning Workshop on Machine Learning and Text Analysis.
1992-97	Editor-in-Chief, SIG on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART), ACM.
1992-93	Guest Editor, THINK Special Issues on Learning/Cognition.
1992-93	Organizing Committee, ECML Workshop on ML Text Analysis
1992	Organizer of the first SHOE workshop on Machine Learning of Natural Language.
1991-92	Contributing Editor, SIGART Bulletin Editorial Board, ACM.
1991-92	Project Manager, SHOE - Extraction of Hierarchical Structure for Machine Learning of Natural Language (Partners in Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy).
1991	Chairman, Organizing Committee, IJCAI-91 Workshop on Natural Language Learning.
1990-91	Chairman, Organizing Committee, AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Learning of Natural Language and Ontology.
1990-	Associate, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Cambridge University Press.
1989-	Honorary Associate in Computing at Macquarie University.
1985-89	Principal Investigator, Macquarie Automated Reasoning Parallel Implementation and Applications (MARPIA) Project – funded by ARC and ATERB grants.
1985-88	Chairman, Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, MPCE, Macquarie University (including responsibility for continuing education courses).
1979-82	Part-time tutoring in the Dept of Computer Science, University of NSW (including occasional lectures in Artificial Intelligence courses).
1979	6 invited seminars at NSW Institute of Technology for `Computing 79' (AI+NL).
1977-89	Contract Programming/Analysis, Computer Consultant and Manager, Innovative MicroProcessor and Computer Technology (computer distributor and software consultancy).
1977-78	Contract Programming/Analysis/Tutoring/Marking for Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney.
1974-77	Contracts as Programmer for Rank Industries Australia (General, Stats, Educational) and Moran MacPherson Pty Ltd (Debtors, Creditors and WIP; also installation and training).

Apart from my role as a member of editorial boards and program committees (of which some less significant ones are not shown, and ongoing ones are italicized), I personally review over 40 papers a year, and typically some grant applications for other universities or ARC (Large and Small grants) or NSF (US National Science Foundation). I have also been asked to be an external reviewer or associate of a number of centres at other universities.

I have been invited to examine half a dozen (Australian and European) PhD/Masters theses and hosted/supervised several Masters/Diploma students (thesis projects, work experience, stages, study visits) for students from various overseas universities (French, Belgian, German, Swedish, Turkish), as well as visiting academics.

Natural Languages

English	Mother tongue.
French	Good facility, 6 years at school, ~1.5 years spent in Francophone territory.
German	Good verbal facility, learnt informally, ~2.5 years spent in Germany/Austria.
Dutch	Good reading knowledge, some verbal facility, 2 week course, ~9 months in BeNeLux.
Chinese	Some reading knowledge and verbal facility, 2 semesters of university study
Maringi	Target language for SIL Linguistics certificate, 10 weeks intensive immersion/analysis
Russian	Minimal technical facility, learnt informally, ~2.5 months in Russian environments
Italian	Tourism level facility when needed, ~2 months in Italy.
Latin	Basic reading knowledge, 4 years at school.
Greek	Basic reading knowledge of Koine, learnt informally then as part of Th.C..
Esperanto, Swedish, Danish	Reading knowledge, superficial familiarity.

Computer Languages/Packages/Systems

PROLOG	Taught + preferred language where feasible (or variants).
PERL	Taught + a favorite language for quick and dirty solutions.
Perlog	A hybrid of Prolog and Perl devised and under development by me.
ADA	Familiarity + some minor programming + some use in teaching
Algol	Taught + some programming
Assembler	Taught + extensive commercial experience (TI990/9900, PDP-11, VAX-11, 8080, Z80, 6800, 68000, 32032, 80X86, SPARC, …).
BASIC	Implemented some Microcomputer applications, including a compiler code-generator (bootstrapping)
BCPL	Strong capability, ported to several platforms
C/C++	Used for system level implementation of several research systems.
COBOL	Taught + some minor programming
FORTRAN	Taught + some minor programming
Java, JavaScript	Used for Web page/form implementation + some use in teaching
LISP, Scheme	Taught + some minor programming
Matlab, Octave	Taught + frequently used in experimental research
Mercury, Haskell, Icon, Python	Familiarity + some use in teaching.
Microsoft Office	Familiarity + some teaching + use on both Mac and Windows (3.1/95/NT/XP)
Modula2	Familiarity
OCCAM	Have used for research and implementation purposes + seminars
Pascal	Taught + implemented some significant systems.
PL/1	Familiarity + some minor programming
Relational	Taught theory and some SQL, ORACLE etc.
Shell	Taught MS-DOS, VMS, UNIX sh, csh, tcsh etc.
SIMULA,	Taught + some programming
Tcl/Tk	Familiarity + some minor programming
Unix, Solaris, Linux	Taught + extensive experience including system administration

Funding (approximate; some internal funding under $10kp.a. omitted)

2008	Human Factors investigation into the utility and visualization of Metadata, Flinders Collaborative Research Grant with DSTO, $10K – funding for Darius Pfitzner
2008	Flinders Brain Computer Interface, Flinders Collaborative Research Grant with Novitatech Ltd and Flinders Medical Centre Foundation, $20K – funding for Dr Sean Fitzgibbon, with Prof. Richard Clark
2008	Automated Discovery, Evaluation, Learning and Information Description for the Education Data Network Australia, Flinders Collaborative Research Grant with Education.au Ltd, $61K – funding for Dr Dongqiang Yang
2006-2011	From Talking Heads to Thinking Heads, ARC/NHMRC Thinking Systems Grant, $3.5M – with UWS/Macquarie/Canberra, approx $166K p.a.for five years to Powers at Flinders, with $40K p.a. internal supplementation, supporting 2 Postdocs + 2 PhDs + Research Assistance.
2006-2007	Advanced Information Analysis, Techniques and Tools, Flinders Science and Engineering Program Grant,$112K – with Prof. John Roddick and A/Prof. Paul Calder. $56K p.a. for two years, supporting 6 fractional Postdocs.
2005	Real-Time Audio-Visual Speech Recognition System, Flinders Small Grant $15K – funding for Dr Trent Lewis
2002-2006	Research Contract from DSTO $100K re Cognitive Neuroscience and Military Training - with Prof. Richard Clark
2002	EEG Control of Interfaces from Flinders Medical Research Institute $10K with Richard Clark
2001-4	Contract Consulting for YourAmigo relating to Clustering and Natural Language search engine interfaces in context of $1.5M grants (1xCOMET, 2xSTART, etc.) + $25M commercial investment
2000	Robot Baby Mark II $10K ARC Small
1999-2003	Speech Correction/Analysis (in kind support) $24K p.a. I2Net Computer Solutions Ltd
1999-2002	Text/Speech Correction $11K p.a. Flinders Technologies Pty Ltd
1999-2000	Speec